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Giant Mutant Spider Attack
by
William McAusland
digital (Photoshop)
Client: Outland Arts |
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Published
Product:
Excavator
Monthly magazine (Monthly PDF
magazine to be released with
The
Mutant Epoch role
playing game, in production. |
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Welcome
to McAusland
Studios
the
online gallery of
speculative artist
William
McAusland.
For
the latest news, discussions, sketches
and views by the artist, check out the
artist's Blog
here.

June 18 2008
Princess Avalon, our new 5 month
old baby, has settled into our house
well and all is good. You'd think having
a new baby around would mean no
sleep and getting no work done, but I
have been remarkably productive. Perhaps
it's the fact that I am staying closer
to home, and well, baby sleeps a lot and
my wife has time off from work... and
well, she does most of the baby care.
While I've done a
pile of inks for Goodman Games and their
upcoming PC Pearls book, plus some inks
and colour work for assorted emerging
tabletop game publishers, whose stuff
I'll show closer to when these companies
release their products, I have also made
a huge dent in the mountain of interior
illustrations for Outland Arts and their
upcoming release of
The Mutant Epoch RPG. Here are some
samples of that:
click
to enlarge
   


March 2008
I've been busy these last few months,
working with Outland Arts on some colour
imagery for upcoming Excavator Monthly
e-magazine issues: Mutant Spider
Attack and Retreating
Excavator) as well as getting a big
chunk of grayscale interior work
accomplished for the Hub Rules core game
book.
  
Here
I have included a link to an image which
goes along with a section on tabletop
Roleplaying gaming.
Also we have a
wrap around cover for the Mutant Epoch's
first published
Community
setting, Pitford; Gateway to the
Ruins, which is a closer look at the
walled desert fort listed in the
Crossroads Region book.

During the evenings, when not madly
trying to complete a deadline on some
graphic design or other
illustration assignment. I've been
experimenting with more digital
art, and produced a pair of ugly
humanoid baddies, the Orc Champion
and the Goblin Warrior, both for
my own portfolio.
Besides commercial illustration and
design, of which there has been a lot of
lately, I've been busy inking for some
more with Goodman Games on their GM Gems
book,
done some work for Ryan Henry and Jamie
Gooch, and been doing plenty of
sketching.
Of course the
biggest news I have is
the birth of my new daughter, Avalon! No
news could surpass this right now, and
man, what a great baby thus far! Mom and
the other kids are all doing well and it
is quite the busy household we now have.

Visit the 'Archives' for past main page
entries.

winter
2007/08/ Besides
the continuous work I do for Outland
Arts, both for the Fantasy Clip Inks
stock art sets and their upcoming
tabletop roleplaying game called
The
Mutant Epoch, I am working on some art
for a RPG and fiction writer, new
concept art, experimental digital
paintings, some real life oils and
acrylics, and other fun stuff. My main
goal right now, however, is to get this
huge web site up and running and all the
sections rich with content. Following
that, I'll
be seeking new Fantasy and Science
fiction clients by way of both direct
mail and email as well as assorted web
marketing activities.
While I also do a lot of contemporary
illustration, both as stock imagery and
as assignments, I am eager to increase
the percentage of all my client work
from about 50% of what I do to 80% by
years end. I was doing some graphic
design, which I appreciated, but found
it was not really conducive to the sort
of creative lifestyle I like to lead,
especially with my 4th child on the way
in the new year and the fact that I will
probably be working on the kitchen table
a lot come January, and keeping odd
hours...making it difficult to meet
local design clients. Furthermore, I
found that doing too much graphic design
meant a lot of hours on the computer
doing layout and fixing up text, which
involved the mouse instead of a pencil
or my Wacom pen-stylus... in short,
design was wrecking my hands and keeping
me from drawing and painting. It had to
end.

Copyright 2008
William McAusland. All rights reserved. contact the
artist at
wm@mcauslandstudios.com
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